The last step before a PhD defense in Norway is a trial lecture. And I passed it yesterday :-)
The idea of the trial lecture is to check candidate's scientific maturity and therefore the topic of the lecture, given 10 working days before the lecture, is from outside of the candidate's main field of research.
My topic was actually completely new for me "Image smoothing with anisotropic diffusion" ... no, nothing ringed the bell when I read it for the first time :-D
Just to give you a taste of what I felt, have a look at the Wikipedia site about anisotropic diffusion and focus on equations... They are pretty scary, aren't they ?
Well, it took me quite a while to understand that the topic as such is very interesting and could be very useful in my future work. Nonetheless the two weeks I had were definitely not enough to refresh my mathematics/physics knowledge, learn new things about image processing and prepare myself to talk about all that for 45 minutes... Needless to say how "uncomfortable" I felt when the audience started to ask questions...
All in all, it was an interesting experience and the evaluation committee was very friendly in their assessments :-)
It was also good to realize how tiny piece of science my brain is able to learn/remember/comprehend...
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ReplyDeleteGood job, glad to hear that it went well. You are one step closer to being Dr Ola and playing around with drones
ReplyDelete:D Thanks John!! Well, to be honest I am not sure if it went well on Wednesday, but for sure it was much better than on Tuesday ;-p
DeleteAnyway, I'm already into the drone project, getting more and more excited and playing PS3 games to get better feeling with controls ;-)
Happy to her the news! I am still waiting for your visit, but you are forgiven till your defence! After that, no! :)
ReplyDeleteBaci!